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Type IIB Flux Vacua via the String Worldsheet Jock McOrist University of Chicago William Linch, J.M. and Brenno Vallilo arXiv: 0804.0613 Motivation: Shortcomings and Expectations How to connect with reality? Flux compactifications are important


  1. Type IIB Flux Vacua via the String Worldsheet Jock McOrist University of Chicago William Linch, J.M. and Brenno Vallilo arXiv: 0804.0613

  2. Motivation: Shortcomings and Expectations How to connect with reality? Flux compactifications are important � Approaches typically confined to SUGRA. Need large volume limit to control � String scale cycle: lots of string corrections SUGRA valid if ls << R What if a cycle approaches string scale? Need a string description! How will string theory change our SUGRA intuition? � Generic string solutions are expected to be string scale � Phenomenologically desirable to have no moduli -> hard in SUGRA � Are there new solutions not seen in SUGRA (eg. Non-geometric..?) Such new � solutions may be phenomenologically interesting 5/31/2008 Jock McOrist - String Phenomenology 2008 2

  3. Type II String Theory Vacua Likely still have much to uncover beyond SUGRA Large volume flux Non-geometry,…? backgrounds Calabi-Yau Non-geometry,…? 5/31/2008 Jock McOrist - String Phenomenology 2008 3

  4. How to Go Beyond Supergravity? Traditionally, string descriptions of RR fluxes are hard & not well � studied Three main approaches � Ramond-Neveu-Schwarz (RNS) � RR vertex operators have branch cuts, half integral picture, ... � Green-Schwarz (GS) � No covariant quantization � Light cone gauge is inconsistent for general flux vacua � D=4 Hybrid (Berkovits,…) � SO(3,1) covariant quantization � Circumvents the above problems nicely � Subjected to many tests (spectrum, scattering amplitudes … ) � Well suited to flux compactifications � 5/31/2008 Jock McOrist - String Phenomenology 2008 4

  5. Outline Motivation: Why Do We Care About String Compactifications? 1. Some Lessons from Supergravity 2. Flux Vacua in the Hybrid 3. Physical Effects and Applications 4. Conclusions and Outlook 5. 5/31/2008 Jock McOrist - String Phenomenology 2008 5

  6. Some Lessons from Supergravity: CY 3 Without fluxes: M 6 = CY 3 � Preserves N=2 spacetime supersymmetry. N = 2 � CY 3 Field content is given by KK reduction on the CY � Supergravity Multiplet � h 2,1 Vector Multiplets (complex structure moduli) � h 1,1 Hypermutiplets (Kahler moduli and dilaton) h 1;1 + 1 � 5/31/2008 Jock McOrist - String Phenomenology 2008 6

  7. Some Lessons from Supergravity: Conformally CY 3 Simple Class of Solutions with G 3 = F 3 – τ H 3 � N = 1 Supersymmetry broken to N=1 � G 3 SUSY => G3 is (2,1) � Moduli lifted by: � Geometry backreacts: � Spacetime filling five-form related to warp factor � We study these backgrounds in string theory � Study non-compactly supported fluxes (evade tadpole, quantization) � Hence, work perturbatively in fluxes � SUGRA is also valid -> give us a concrete check of our approach � 5/31/2008 Jock McOrist - String Phenomenology 2008 7

  8. Outline Motivation: Why Do We Care About String Compactifications? 1. Some Lessons from Supergravity 2. String Theory for RR Fluxes 3. Physical Effects and Applications 4. Conclusions and Outlook 5. 5/31/2008 Jock McOrist - String Phenomenology 2008 8

  9. String Theory for Flux Vacua: D=4 Hybrid Hybrid originally formulated on with field content � Understandable as field redefinition of an N=1 critical RNS string: � GS a redefinition of RNS D=4 & ghost variables � usual RNS CY variables. Decoupled from D=4 sector. � Worldsheet Action � Comments: � Spacetime fermions have no branch cuts => manifest spacetime SUSY � Even though internal theory is RNS, we show how it can describe RR fluxes � described by (2,2) c = 9 SCFT � BRST + conformal invariance of N=1 RNS string <=> is a (2,2) SCFT. � => Entire worldsheet theory is a (2,2) SCFT. (2,2) worldsheet superconformal invariance required for theory to be physically � well-defined. We use it as our guiding principle 5/31/2008 Jock McOrist - String Phenomenology 2008 9

  10. String Theory for Flux Vacua: Flux Vertex Operators Three-form fluxes. By KK reducing on the CY: � F_3 = � H_3 = � Map RNS vertex operators to Hybrid. Trick: internal fluxes correspond to � spacetime auxiliary fields For example: � p=1,…,h21 labels the (2,1) cohomology elements � Psi is RR ground state corresponding to pth cohomology element � O is the (c,c) element attained by spectral flow of � Vh has no branch cuts. May be integrated into the Hybrid action! � 5/31/2008 Jock McOrist - String Phenomenology 2008 10

  11. String Theory for Flux Vacua: Flux Vertex Operators Have also written down vertex operators for other possible internal fluxes: � H : � where is the correction to the Levi-Civita connection, E is the complexified metric in a certain picture F1 and spacetime filling F5 : � G3 : � 5/31/2008 Jock McOrist - String Phenomenology 2008 11

  12. Outline Motivation: Why Do We Care About String Compactifications? 1. Some Lessons from Supergravity 2. String Theory for RR Fluxes 3. Physical Effects and Applications 4. Conclusions and Outlook 5. 5/31/2008 Jock McOrist - String Phenomenology 2008 12

  13. Physical Effects and Applications Start with non-compact Calabi-Yau background � Turn on small amount of Some expectations from Supergravity: � Spacetime becomes warped 1. Superpotential generated 2. We see each of these effects in string theory � Construct the integrated vertex operator for G3 flux � Deform worldsheet action by � As spacetime SUSY manifest, easy to see this breaks half the SUSY � corresponding to 5/31/2008 Jock McOrist - String Phenomenology 2008 13

  14. Physical Effects and Applications: Warping & F 5 The deformed action is not conformally invariant at 1-loop in � The 1-loop beta function given by the UV structure of the two point � function: Divergence breaks conformal invariance To maintain conformal invariance we add a counter-term. Requiring D=4 � µ Poincare, the only vertex operator with the correct t structure is: The deformation preserves conformal invariance provided � Implies the spacetime metric has been adjusted to give precisely warping! � Similarly, one can show conformal invariance preserved only if we have � 5/31/2008 Jock McOrist - String Phenomenology 2008 14

  15. Physical Effects and Applications: Superpotential Presence of flux => potential generated at tree level which lifts moduli � See this in string theory by tree-level scattering amplitude � = vertex operator for complex structure modulus In a CY 3 background, SL(2,C) and worldsheet SUSY => . � Flux background inserts a vertex operator, rendering the amplitude non- � zero Manifest spacetime SUSY => scattering amplitude automatically computes � a superpotential Topological Integration over zero modes invariant of CY and unbroken SUSY This may be recast in a more familiar form: � 5/31/2008 Jock McOrist - String Phenomenology 2008 15

  16. Conclusions and Outlook Summary: � Important to have string theory description of flux vacua � This may lead to new string solutions, which are phenomenologically viable (no moduli, � string scale, understanding of the landscape…) We have shown how to identify flux vertex operators in the Hybrid � Computed using string theory effects well-known in supergravity � Future and Current Work: � Tip of the iceberg: many computable interesting physical effects. � Need to understand finite flux deformations and orientifolding (compact solutions) � Construction of a Hybrid GLSM ( work in progress with J. Park, C. Quigley, D. � Robbins, S. Sethi ) Eventually understand vacua that are string scale: eg. non-geometric, no volume � modulus. 5/31/2008 Jock McOrist - String Phenomenology 2008 16

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